PingColor 🎨

Colored ping output utility that supports multiplatform (Windows, Linux, macOS) with color configuration via TOML file.

Features

• ✅ Multiplatform: Windows, Linux, macOS
• 🎨 True Color Support: Uses hex color (#RRGGBB)
• ⚙️ Configurable: All colors can be configured via pingcolor.toml
• 🎲 Smart Random Colors: The same value gets the same color consistently
• 🔄 Auto Config: Automatically creates pingcolor.toml if it doesn't already exist

Installation

# Clone or copy files
cargo build --release
# Binary is in target/release/pingcolor

# Or

cargo install pingcolor

Usage

# Basic usage
pingcolor google.com
pingcolor 8.8.8.8

# Windows (continuous ping)
pingcolor google.com

# Linux/macOS (default behavior)
pingcolor google.com

Configuration

The file pingcolor.toml will be automatically created with default colors:

# Windows specific colors
reply = "#00FFFF"
timeout = "#FFFF00"
unreachable_fg = "#FFFFFF"
unreachable_bg = "#FF0000"
from = "#FF557F"
ip_fg = "#FFFFFF"
ip_bg = "#00007F"
bytes = "#AA55FF"
time = "#AAAA00"
time_value_fg = "#FFFFFF"
time_value_bg = "#AA00FF"
ms = "#FFAA7F"
ttl = "#55AAFF"
ttl_value_fg = "#FFFFFF"
ttl_value_bg = "#005500"

# Linux/Mac specific
icmp_seq = "#00FFAA"
transmitted = "#AAFFAA"
received = "#AAFFAA"
packet_loss = "#FFAA55"
statistics = "#55AAFF"
ping_statistics = "#55AAFF"

# Random colors for dynamic values (bytes, icmp_seq, etc)
random_colors = ["#FFAA00", "#0055FF", "#AAFFFF"]

# Generic
equals = "#777777"
general_text = "#CCCCCC"

Color Mapping

Windows Output

Reply from 172.217.215.101: bytes=32 time=232ms TTL=101

• Reply → Cyan (#00FFFF)
• from → Pink (#FF557F)
• 172.217.215.101 → White on Blue (#FFFFFF on #00007F)
• bytes → Purple (#AA55FF)
• 32 → Random dari 3 warna, konsisten per nilai
• time → Yellow (#AAAA00)
• 232 → White on Purple (#FFFFFF on #AA00FF)
• ms → Orange (#FFAA7F)
• TTL → Light Blue (#55AAFF)
• 101 → White on Green (#FFFFFF on #005500)

Linux/macOS Output

64 bytes from 172.217.215.101: icmp_seq=1 ttl=57 time=15.2 ms

• 64 → Random dari 3 warna, konsisten per nilai
• bytes → Purple (#AA55FF)
• from → Pink (#FF557F)
• 172.217.215.101 → White on Blue
• icmp_seq → Aqua (#00FFAA)
• 1 → Random warna
• ttl → Light Blue (#55AAFF)
• 57 → White on Green (#FFFFFF on #005500)
• time → Yellow (#AAAA00)
• 15.2 → White on Purple (#FFFFFF on #AA00FF)
• ms → Orange (#FFAA7F)

Platform Differences

Windows

• Output: Reply from x.x.x.x: bytes=32 time=15ms TTL=64
• Errors: Request timed out, Destination host unreachable
• Ping continuous by default dengan flag -t

Linux

• Output: 64 bytes from x.x.x.x: icmp_seq=1 ttl=64 time=15.2 ms
• Errors: Destination Host Unreachable, Request timeout
• Lowercase keywords (ttl, icmp_seq)

macOS

• Similar to Linux
• Output: 64 bytes from x.x.x.x: icmp_seq=0 ttl=57 time=15.234 ms

Smart Random Colors

The same value will get the same color during the session:

• If bytes=32 gets color #FFAA00
• As long as the value remains 32, the color remains #FFAA00
• If you change to 64, you get a new color (random from the pool)

Dependencies

colored = "2.1"      # True color support
serde = "1.0"        # Serialization
toml = "0.8"         # Config parsing
regex = "1.10"       # Pattern matching
rand = "0.8"         # Random color selection

Notes

• Terminal should be support true color (24-bit color)
• Modern terminals such as Windows Terminal, iTerm2, or GNOME Terminal are supported
• If the color does not appear, check the terminal emulator usedused

License

MIT

👤 Author

Hadi Cahyadi

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Created with ❤️ using Rust